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The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML

Comment This argument portrays ODF as clean, well structured and designed for extensibility, while OOXML is a poor foundation for the future because its confused specification has been bloated to support the features of generations of Microsoft Office.

Tags: xml, office, microsoft, standards

[04 Apr 2008]

Retail leaders will open up in tough times

Retail leaders will open up in tough times

Comment Mayfield was particularly proud of the Waitrose Foundation, a fair-trade initiative currently being conducted with a number of produce suppliers. The danger is that a downturn will bite into IT spending even though technology could be retailers...

Tags: recession, john lewis partnership, carphone warehouse, supplier

[13 Mar 2008]

It's time Indian IT took the lead

Comment And a new study by the Nasscom Foundation has explored and measured the social and wider economic impact of the industry. So can it change? Richard Sykes reports. Nasscom's Leadership Forum closed with a session called 'Taking India to the next...

Tags: india, software, innovation, outsourcing

[20 Feb 2008]

The Naked CIO: Recruitment nightmares

Comment The importance of this cannot be overstated as these people are the foundation by which successful IT delivery in the organisation will be measured. The bigger problems run deep and are crippling the IT industry.

Tags: recruitment, candidates, interviews, skills

[11 Feb 2008]

The McCue Interview: Dave Lynch, CIO, Go Ahead Group

Comment I see group systems as a foundation - necessary evil. Dave Lynch, a no-nonsense northerner hailing from the seaside town of Blackpool, has come a long way since starting out on the trams and buses that parade up and down the Golden Mile promenade...

Tags: go ahead group, dave lynch, cios, wi fi

[30 Jan 2008]

Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century

Comment But it takes a foundation. This event could turn out to be a defining moment for the future of mobile computing, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield. One of the greatest communications auctions of all time is about to begin.

Tags: mobile, spectrum, wireless, next generation

[17 Dec 2007]

How closely are you monitoring?

Comment Effective asset management, using a combination of automated discovery and manual cataloguing, is a useful foundation for any monitoring project, although some forms of monitoring can be done without it.

Tags: monitoring, management, efficiency, performance

[10 Dec 2007]

The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham

The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham

Comment It was a great foundation. Given the image problems associated with both areas, working in IT in the insurance industry a few years ago would probably have ranked high on the 'careers to avoid' list. The internet, however, has shaken up the...

Tags: mccue interview, mark foulsham, esure, style

[27 Nov 2007]

Linus Torvalds

AS Profile The father of Linux re-emerges in the rankings due to his ongoing contributions in the open-source world - including setting up the Linux Foundation this year from the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group in an...

[12 Oct 2007]

Richard Stallman

AS Profile Founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, Stallman reappears in the rankings for bringing popular free software tools into the public domain, developing the open-source software replacement for Unix and campaigning against...

[12 Oct 2007]

Cory Doctorow

AS Profile From 2002-2006 Doctorow was the director of European affairs for the digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, of which he remains a fellow, as well as publishing a number of science fiction novels and short stories.

[12 Oct 2007]

Mohamed Ibrahim

AS Profile Ibrahim now chairs the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which was set up to promote good governance and government accountability in Africa and to reward African leaders for good government once they have retired.

[12 Oct 2007]

Location, location, location...

Comment This is the foundation of location intelligence. Quocirca's Louella Fernandes shows why the location dimension should be a key part of the business intelligence process. The global digital age has had a profound impact on consumer access to maps...

Tags: gps, mapping, lbs, rfid

[09 Oct 2007]

Tech can make or break a merger

Comment Rapid integration of the infrastructure creates the foundation for new and more complex business-facing systems and capabilities. Andrew Morlet sets out five rules to help CIOs ensure acquisitions succeed.

Tags: merger, cios, m&a

[25 Sep 2007]

Learn to love your network again

Comment The end result of such a process is having a strong foundation on which to manage the network going forward, given you cannot effectively manage anything you do not know you have. Before securing or managing their networks companies must first...

Tags: data networks, networks, lan

[26 Mar 2007]

India diary, day 2: Emergency calls and rural life

Comment My day starts with a journey across to Hyderabad's ugly twin sister city of Secunderabad to visit the Byrraju Foundation, a charitable organisation working to improve the lives of rural Indians. Over cups of extremely sweet coffee its lead partner...

Tags: bpo

[05 Mar 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Recycling is rubbish

Comment It turned out to hold the foundation insights to almost all processes and mechanisms we confront in the real and information world spanning physical, biological, chemical and data systems. Written in the lobby of a Vancouver hotel and dispatched to...

Tags: recycling

[23 Jan 2007]

ITU 06 diary - Buzzword bingo, too much text and a one-on-one with Negroponte

Comment Despite the blanket of technology at ITU, my planned meeting with Nicholas Negroponte, head of the One Laptop Per Child foundation - better known as the makers of the $100 laptop - is beset with communications difficulties.

Tags: itu, negroponte

[05 Dec 2006]

Will's Web Watch: Life on Google Earth

Comment But simply making all this information and imaging available is really only the foundation for innovations that are even more impressive. I've always been fascinated by travel and able to lose myself in maps and the potential they promise but...

Tags: google earth, google

[06 Nov 2006]

Oracle - how to make friends and influence people

Comment Fusion could generate significant revenue as existing application customers upgrade to the common software foundation, analysts have said. Oracle may still be digesting a raft of big-name acquisitions - from PeopleSoft to Siebel - but, suggests...

Tags: oracle

[25 Oct 2006]

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